en-us	The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest challenge of our time. 
zh-cn	新冠肺炎大流行是我们时代最大的挑战。

en-us	As the coronavirus continues to spread across 200+ countries and territories, with more than a million cases diagnosed and significant loss of life, the ability to respond by limiting transmission, keeping vulnerable populations safe, and maintaining a functional health system will determine the speed of recovery in each country. 
zh-cn	随着新冠疫情继续在200多个国家和地区蔓延，确诊病例超过百万，生命损失严重，限制病毒传播、保护脆弱人群和维持卫生系统正常运转，这些应对能力将决定每个国家的恢复速度。

en-us	Unfortunately, most countries are ill-equipped to respond to a pandemic of this scale. Part of this can be attributed to shortages and limitations of the nursing workforce. 
zh-cn	令人遗憾的是，大多数国家能力不足，无法应对如此规模的大流行，一个原因是护士短缺及其局限性。 

en-us	As the pandemic sweeps the globe, nurses are on the front lines of the response and are going above and beyond to keep health systems functional. 
zh-cn	当大流行席卷全球，护士处于抗疫的最前线，以超乎寻常的努力维持着卫生系统的正常运转。

en-us	Physically and mentally exhausted, nurses are working around the clock to provide care, putting themselves and their families at risk of infection. And they’re doing so in a setting where personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies are dwindling. 
zh-cn	护士们夜以继日地提供护理，身心俱疲，自身和家人都面临感染风险，而且是在个人防护设备日益短缺的环境中工作。

en-us	Data from Italy revealed that 20% of health workers were infected with COVID-19, and 14% in Spain; in China more than 3,300 were infected as of early March. 
zh-cn	意大利的数据显示，医护人员感染新冠肺炎的比例达到20%，西班牙达到14%。截至3月初中国有3300多名医护人员感染。 

en-us	Even before this crisis, the global nursing workforce was not growing fast enough to meet universal health coverage targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. 
zh-cn	即便是在这场危机之前，全球护理人员的增长速度也不够快，难以达到2030年实现全民健康覆盖目标和可持续发展目标的要求。

en-us	Although the global shortage of nurses slightly decreased from 6.6 million in 2016 to 5.9 million in 2018, almost 90% of the deficit is in low- and lower-middle-income countries. 
zh-cn	2016年全球护士短缺660万人， 2018年短缺590万人，近90%的短缺发生在中低收入国家。

en-us	Here the number of trained nurses is barely keeping pace with population growth. 
zh-cn	训练有素的护士人数难以跟上人口的增长速度。

en-us	Health emergencies exacerbate these imbalances and put further stress on the existing health workforce. 
zh-cn	突发卫生事件加剧了这种失衡，给现有医护人员队伍带来进一步的压力。 

en-us	The critical role of nursing 
zh-cn	护士的关键作用 

en-us	Nurses are frequently the first and highest-level provider for primary care. They are essential to expanding delivery of health services to remote populations. 
zh-cn	护士通常是基层医疗的第一和最高级别的提供者，对于扩大偏远人群的卫生服务提供至关重要。

en-us	Evidence shows that nurses are also instrumental in improving health sector productivity and patient outcomes, and they are less expensive to train and deploy than other professional health workers. 
zh-cn	有证据表明，护士还有助于提高卫生部门的生产率和病人的治疗结果。与其他专业医务人员相比，培训和部署护士的费用更低。

en-us	Investing in the nursing workforce presents a triple return on health, economic growth, and gender equity. 
zh-cn	投资培育护士队伍，可带来健康、经济增长和性别平等三重回报。 

en-us	Nurses are essential to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). 
zh-cn	护士对于实现全民健康覆盖至关重要。

en-us	They make up the largest proportion of the health workforce, are responsible of 90% of the contacts between patients and health professionals , and are integral to primary care services, population health, other specialized care, policy, and management. 
zh-cn	护士在医务人员队伍中占比最大，负责病人与专业医务人员之间90%的接触，是初级保健服务、人口保健、其他专业护理、政策和管理的组成部分。 

en-us	The world needs 9 million more nurses and midwives to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. 
zh-cn	要想到2030年实现全民健康覆盖，全球需要900万名护士和助产士。

en-us	To close this gap, nurse graduates would need to increase by 8% per year on average globally. 
zh-cn	要弥合这一差距，全球护士专科毕业生人数平均每年需要增加8%。

en-us	Without that, current trends indicate that we would have only 36 million nurses by 2030, with the deficit concentrated in Africa, Southeast Asia, and the eastern Mediterranean. 
zh-cn	否则，按照目前趋势，到2030年护士人数将只能达到3600万人，短缺主要集中在非洲、东南亚和地中海东部地区。 

en-us	Investing in nursing: Evidence from Africa 
zh-cn	投资培养护士：来自非洲的证据 

en-us	The World Bank, in collaboration with the International Council of Nurses (ICN), Jhpiego, and the East Central and South African College of Nursing (ECSACON), analyzed the education and labor markets for nurses across 16 countries of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa. 
zh-cn	世界银行与国际护士理事会（ICN）、Jhpiego以及中东部和南部非洲护理学院（ECSACON）合作，分析了东部、中部和南部非洲16个国家的护士专科教育和劳动力市场状况。

en-us	The upcoming report shows that education investments need to be more targeted. 
zh-cn	即将发布的报告表明，教育投资需要更具针对性。

en-us	Low absorption rates of nurse graduates into the workforce, often fueled by recruitment inefficiencies or undesirable working conditions, results in unemployment among nurses despite the overall shortage. 
zh-cn	劳动力队伍对护士专科毕业生的吸收率低，往往是由于招聘效率低或工作条件差造成的，导致出现尽管护士人数整体短缺但护士专科毕业生失业率却很高的现象。

en-us	For nurses who have jobs, poor working conditions and inadequate training restrain performance and productivity, leading to high levels of attrition and absenteeism. 
zh-cn	对于在职护士而言，工作条件差和培训不足阻碍了工作绩效和生产力的提高，导致高流失率和缺勤率。 

en-us	As countries face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of a fit-for-purpose health workforce within a functional health system becomes paramount. 
zh-cn	随着各国应对新冠肺炎大流行的挑战，培育正常运转的卫生系统中符合需要的医护人员队伍的重要性日益凸显。

en-us	The Global Health Security (GHS) report shows that most countries lack the necessary support for health care workers to ensure adequate epidemic and pandemic response. 
zh-cn	全球卫生安全（GHS）报告显示，大多数国家缺少对医护人员的必要支持，因而难以确保对流行病和大流行病做出适当应对。

en-us	For example, only 3% of the countries show a public commitment to prioritizing health care services for workers who become sick as a result of participating in a public health response. 
zh-cn	例如，只有3%的国家做出公开承诺，优先为因参加公共卫生应对而患病的医护人员提供医治。 

en-us	Prioritizing and protecting the health care workforce is critical now — not only because their own lives are at risk, but also because patients rely on them to continue providing care. 
zh-cn	目前，优先医治和保护医护人员队伍至关重要，不仅因为他们的生命受到威胁，也因为病人依靠他们继续提供医疗服务。

en-us	As the coronavirus continues to spread in the weeks and months ahead, the world is at risk of exhausting our nurses at a time when we need them most. 
zh-cn	随着新冠疫情在未来数周和数月继续蔓延，当我们最需要护士之际，世界正面临护士资源濒临枯竭的危险。 

en-us	On World Health Day, the world must do all it can to ensure that nursing and midwifery workforces are strong enough to meet the pledge of the SDGs and “leave no one behind.”
zh-cn	在世界卫生日，世界必须尽一切努力培育壮大护士和助产士队伍，以实现可持续发展目标的承诺， “不让任何人掉队”。